News

Showing:

Lower Staffing Ratios, Fewer Readmissions

November 01, 2013

Reducing hospital re-admissions is one of the chief cost-cutting tactics of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Hospitals that have excessive 30-day readmissions for Medicare patients admitted for heart...

NYSNA rallies for safe staffing at Montefiore

October 31, 2013

Hundreds of NYSNA RNs and supporters rallied yesterday for safe staffing and respect at Montefiore – including Monte's newly-acquired facilities in Westchester.

At Monte Moses, NYSNA Executive...

Video: Westchester Patient Care in Danger

October 28, 2013

Execs at Westchester Medical Center have laid off and privatized more than 140 skilled registered nurses and hundreds of other caregivers.

NYSNA nurses talk about what we are doing to save patient care...

Schenectady RNs: "We want to join NYSNA!"

October 04, 2013

Nurses at Niskayuna's Bellevue Women's Center presented a petition to Ellis Hospital management requesting recognition of our union. Almost every single nurse at Bellevue signed the petition.

Many...

NYSNA and 1199SEIU stand together and say: ‘We care for New York!’

January 01, 2012

Chanting “We Care for New York,” hundreds of NYSNA nurses and 1199SEIU caregivers picketed for respect at Brooklyn’s Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and East Harlem’s Terence Cardinal Cooke long-term...